Merge pull request #98938 from raboof/nixos-manual-wayland

nixos.manual: introduce Wayland section

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nixos/doc/manual/configuration/configuration.xml
··· 18 18 <xi:include href="user-mgmt.xml" /> 19 19 <xi:include href="file-systems.xml" /> 20 20 <xi:include href="x-windows.xml" /> 21 + <xi:include href="wayland.xml" /> 21 22 <xi:include href="gpu-accel.xml" /> 22 23 <xi:include href="xfce.xml" /> 23 24 <xi:include href="networking.xml" />
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nixos/doc/manual/configuration/wayland.xml
··· 1 + <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 2 + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 3 + xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" 4 + version="5.0" 5 + xml:id="sec-wayland"> 6 + <title>Wayland</title> 7 + 8 + <para> 9 + While X11 (see <xref linkend="sec-x11"/>) is still the primary display 10 + technology on NixOS, Wayland support is steadily improving. 11 + Where X11 separates the X Server and the window manager, on Wayland those 12 + are combined: a Wayland Compositor is like an X11 window manager, but also 13 + embeds the Wayland 'Server' functionality. This means it is sufficient to 14 + install a Wayland Compositor such as <package>sway</package> without 15 + separately enabling a Wayland server: 16 + <programlisting> 17 + <xref linkend="opt-programs.sway.enable"/> = true; 18 + </programlisting> 19 + This installs the <package>sway</package> compositor along with some 20 + essential utilities. Now you can start <package>sway</package> from the TTY 21 + console. 22 + </para> 23 + </chapter>